Are you willing to cut Bush any slack on this promise?
After the borders and the spending? No slack from me. Nominate what you promised. Lets have the fight. If we lose, then nominate Meiers as a compromise pick. But to not even try....smacks of wimpishness that 41 would have been ashamed of.
I don't care about any other subjects when discussing the nomination issue. I find it disturbing that too many people didn't want the fight after the Gang of 14 gave filibustering credibility with their deal. I wanted that fight then, and I want it now. Their deal sent the message that if someone with the strongest record of conservative ideology, originalist construction, whatever you want to call it, was nominated, the Senate would reserve POWER to make Bush look bad (even by bringing up other subjects such as you have done), by claiming that the nominee is too extreme in the abstract, or perhaps too extreme to replace O'Connor in particular, to merit a floor vote.
The fact is that the deal was a power grab by Senators who wanted control over the nomination process, and were not merely content to debate and vote among themselves.
And all of us let it happen.